Broom-bridle.



L. ZEIGER & A. I LUSK.

BROOMBRIDLE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 7. ms.

Patented Oct. 3, 1916.

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LEE ZEIGER AND ALFRED I. LUSK, F MELBOURNE, IOWA.

BROOM-BRIDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 3, 1916.

Application filed July 7, 1916. Serial No. 108,049.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LEE ZEIGER and ALFRED I. LUsK, citizens of the United States, residing at Melbourne, in the county of Marshall, State of Iowa, have invented j able others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to broom bridles. Our invention has for its object to provide an improved form of broom braces or f; bridles, the construction of the present inventions consisting of a pair of frame sections which are seated over the edges of the broom body and are there retained by a peculiar arrangement of connecting spring elements.

Furthermore, the invention involves the particular construction of each of the frame sections, whereby the elements cooperate to provide a suitable inclosure for the broom body while still affording all of the necessary resiliency which will permit the broom to bend when in use.

With the above and other objects relating to the details of construction as will hereinafter appear, our invention will now be fully set forth and described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a style of the device showing it applied to a broom, Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device removed from the broom, Fig. 3 is a section on line 33 of Fig. 4, and Fig. 4 is a side view of one of the frame sections.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 denotes each one of a pair of semi circular collar sections or bands formed of sheet metal which are adapted to partly encircle the neck of a broom. The spaces remaining between the ends of the sections 1 are joined by the coiled springs 2 which complete the collar and hold the latter in resilient engagament with the neck of the broom. Each of the collar sections 1 has secured to it in any suitable manner four depending spring steel rods or strips 3 and 4, the strips or rods 3 being suspended from the end of the collar section 1 so as to extend downwardly over the intermediate portion of the flat side of the broom, and the rods or strips 4 being suspended from the intermediate portion of the collar sections 1 so as to overlie substantially the rounded corners of the broom body, that is where the fiat side of the broom merges into the rounded edge portions. In order to maintain the strips 3 and 4 in properly spaced vertical relation,-the braces 5 are secured between the corresponding sides of the strips 3 and 4, said braces 5 thus coming in position to overlie the flat sides of the body of the broom, approximately at the corded portion thereof. The lower or free ends of the bars 3 and 4 are connected by transverse braces 6, so that upon each side of the broom there is provided a substantially rigid spaced frame.

Around the rounded surface of the broom body. the opposing frames, that is those frames which are carried by the same collar section 1, are joined by the coiled springs 7 and 8, the spring 7 being joined across the frame adjacent the point where the upper braces 5 connect while the lower springs 8 connect the lower ends of the frame.

Across the opposite faces of the broom body the adjacent frames, that is those that are carried by the connected ends of the collar section, are joined by the coiled springs 9 and 10, the springs 9 practically connecting the inner ends of the braces 5,

In the preparation of the vertical members 3 and 4 of the device, the members 3 are formed of flattened steel rods, the flattened dimensions being laid against the body of the broom so that the full benefit of the resiliency of the metal may be secured. At 12 the members are greatly fiattened overthe part of the broom where the fiexion of the straws is greatest. lower ends the members 3 are curved away from one another as at 11 so that the frame members will not be drawn into contact when used upon a comparatively small body. The members 4 are also formedof .flattened material and are. deformed as at 13 so that the points of greatest resiliency will occur just below the corded portion of the broom, or on the line of maximum flexion, so that the points where the broom straws ordinarily bend in use are coincident with the points of the greatest resiliency of the members 4. Preferably the members 3 will also be provided with points of greatest resiliency, as by more completely flat- At the tening the rods on the horizontal line substantially coinciding With the points of greatest resiliency of the rods 4.

From the foregoing it Will be evident that We have produced a broom bridle 0r brace Which possesses all the necessary requirements for holding the broom in shape but which also permits the broom to utilize all of its natural properties of flexibility When in use, the frame part of the bridle being so constructed that it does not interfere frames to each pair and other coil springs connecting the pairs around the edges of the broom.

2. A broom bridle comprising in combination a sectional collar surrounding the neck of a broom, a frame suspended from each end of each section of the collar so that a pair of frames overlies each face of the broom, coil springs connecting the frames to each pair and other coil springs connecting the pairs around the edges of the broom, said frame being formed of flattened spring'metal strips Which have their points of greatest resiliency below the corded portion of the broom.

In testimony whereof, We aflix our signatures, in the presence of two Witnesses.

LEE ZEIGER. ALFRED I. LUSK. Witnesses V J. H. BAGLEY, AL SANDERMAN.

Copies oi this patent may be obtained for five cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0. 

